A New Malicious Program Suggests That The Hacking Team Has Returned

Hacking Team has been under surveillance for some time after some documents have revealed that they were selling spy programs. However, it seems that it’s a pretty big chance they have resumed their work.

Hacking Team is a company in Italy that offers hacking solutions. The irony is that this hacking company was successfully attacked by other hackers, and the repercussions were not a few. The company is known mostly for its unorthodox services. While companies like Kaspersky, Bitdefender or Microsoft want to stop viruses and computer threats, Hacking Team has offered solutions to break the protection systems and steal data. The DaVinci’s solution which they have marketed, it is praised as being able to break the encryption of emails, files, and VoIPconversations (like Skype).

Following the attacks, there have lost over 400 GB of documents, codes, and emails that have been published on torrent sites and can be downloaded by anyone. According to The Verge, the vulnerabilities used by Hacking Team to analyze and find ways to get into any computer were also released to the public.

Security experts have discovered that a new malicious program for Mac installs a version of the instrument Remote Code Systems, which belongs to the Hacking Team. Apparently, this happens since October, that is, three months after the company was exposed. It’s a chance to be a third application obtained and updated based on the released source code, but clues suggest that it’s not the work of an amateur, notes Engadget.

Firstly, the existence of a “fresh” code is a weird thing itself. In addition, the program is too sophisticated to be created by a man who is not good. It even uses Apple’s encryption system, making it quite difficult to analyze the content of the program. Perhaps, at this stage, there aren’t many reasons for concern. Some antivirus programs already detect the program, and the infection mechanism is not obvious. However, what would be really disturbing would be the fact that the hackers were able to bypass the specialized supervision of the government.